Bellevue, the large, prosperous, and SUV-filled suburb of Seattle, remains a haven of modem access! Most of Bellevue, including Chez Glomph, has no DSL, no Cable internet. It's a cruel mixture of history, density, and thoughtless local government, who allowed AT&T to put in cable internet "as soon as possible". Wow, that's a stringent deadline!
Telocity, actually went so far as to wire my house (the technician here said the line was good to 416kbps), then decided that Bellevue sucked. Yeah, any place with some rich guy named Gates is a bit handicapped.... (Medina, WA being a de facto part of Bellevue).
NT and W2K are capable of being locked down fairly well. The problem is, doing this reduces the utility of the PC to boatanchor status, given the usage culture of Windoze borgslaves.
You can't install anything, frequently preferences and other settings cannot be saved, etc.
So what happens, is that people run it as Administrator, and the fun begins.
The PHBs love Microsoft, because MS recognizes how unthinking most of them are. Oooo, it's pretty, I have a place to click...
Frankly, NO. Proper administration of Linux requires the ability to understand C code, how it works, how it's built and installed. Not a super wizard, not somebody who could write a Linux device driver in one sitting, but you cannot get a meaningful Linux job just by knowing how to spell it, and maybe having gone through one or two RedHat installs. Does not distinguish you from the Button-clicking VB monkeys with Tear-off MSCE sheets....
Using a stupid email name like scumbucket is not a plus, either.
OK, look at it this way: Which human, of the billions on the planet, changed the course of history in his time, and left an indelible mark in perpetuity? You could pick mass butchers like Hitler or Stalin, who qualify due to the sheer volume of their atrocities. Or you could go with the person who is identified with literally changing the way everyone thinks.
The guy earlier is right about Bohr. And Rutherford. And Pauli. And Oppenheimer. And Rabi. And a whole lot of other physicists in the first half of this century. Sorta sorry I missed it. But I got to study with a lot of guys who worked with the above. Hard to forget this legacy. Screw the politicians, movie stars, sports figures, and other 'leaders'.
The 10-Cup Neuro-Fuzzy Deluxe Rice Cooker is ready
on
Having Fun with Y2K
·
· Score: 1
So all of you with Neuro-Fuzzy Deluxe Rice will be well fed next year!
All of these harbor drug traders and other criminals, so they are clearly incubators of trouble. Ban milk & bread sales, too. The Bad Guys gain vital sustenance from this as well.
Worse than a delay, their sendmail config is broken, one of the anti-spam-relay filters is bouncing mail sent to hostmaster@internic.net!!!
Holy Horse Manure! Worst monopoly ever, at least there are alternatives to RedmondCrapWare! __________________CLIP__________________________ __ The original message was received at Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:01:42 -0500 (EST) from biprrs0.lb.internic.net [192.168.120.38]
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Telocity, actually went so far as to wire my house (the technician here said the line was good to 416kbps), then decided that Bellevue sucked. Yeah, any place with some rich guy named Gates is a bit handicapped.... (Medina, WA being a de facto part of Bellevue).
NT and W2K are capable of being locked down fairly well. The problem is, doing this reduces the utility of the PC to boatanchor status, given the usage culture of Windoze borgslaves.
You can't install anything, frequently preferences and other settings cannot be saved, etc.
So what happens, is that people run it as Administrator, and the fun begins.
The PHBs love Microsoft, because MS recognizes how unthinking most of them are. Oooo, it's pretty, I have a place to click...
Replace Britney Spears with a bowl of
wobbly lime Jell-O.... Oh, wait, who
could tell the difference? The Jell-O is
more intelligent!
But sucks on modem lines.
The inter-node traffic is ENORMOUS.
I very intermittently run 'gnut' on a major link, and gnutella is superb.
On a commercial ISP dialup, it is useless.
mailto:jshapiro@kpt.k12.tn.us
The mail server on this domain is an OPEN RELAY.
I suggest that this guy is a total imbecile.
But you knew that.
What a waste of time. In my college, you could get a LOT of CH3CH2OH-seeking robots with no effort or expense!
Frankly, NO.
Proper administration of Linux requires the
ability to understand C code, how it works, how
it's built and installed. Not a super wizard, not
somebody who could write a Linux device driver in one sitting, but you cannot get a meaningful Linux
job just by knowing how to spell it, and maybe
having gone through one or two RedHat installs. Does not distinguish you from the Button-clicking VB monkeys with Tear-off MSCE sheets....
Using a stupid email name like scumbucket is not a plus, either.
Jesus H. Christ, the thing is based on NT.
The clue level is down there at the freezing point of Helium.
No way would I cast a binding vote on an NT shitbox. (yeah, it's secure)
Blah, my 14-year-old car literally gasped, wheezed and died on Election Day. I did not get to the polling place.
The current system is biased against the car-less.
But a borgo-centric election backend? Election returns in PowerPoint-digested-to-HTML?
George Orwell is behind this, I tell ya!
Where the guy shouts all sorts of admonishing remarks at his dog; and all the dog hears is...
"Blah blah Java blah blah blah Java".
Which human, of the billions on the planet, changed the course of history in his time, and left an indelible mark in perpetuity?
You could pick mass butchers like Hitler or Stalin, who qualify due to the sheer volume of their atrocities.
Or you could go with the person who is identified with literally changing the way everyone thinks.
The guy earlier is right about Bohr. And Rutherford. And Pauli. And Oppenheimer. And Rabi. And a whole lot of other physicists in the first half of this century.
Sorta sorry I missed it. But I got to study with a lot of guys who worked with the above. Hard to forget this legacy. Screw the politicians, movie stars, sports figures, and other 'leaders'.
Get cooking!
All of these harbor drug traders and other criminals, so they are clearly incubators of trouble.
Ban milk & bread sales, too.
The Bad Guys gain vital sustenance from this as well.
FreeBSD is the most stable kernel on the planet!
The distro and environment are not that great, which is why I use slackware & Linux 2.0.3x to
run a major internet operation.
However-- check out this uptime for a BUSY FreeBSD box we have (we even moved it when we changed offices, kept it connected to its UPS in the car!)
% uptime
10:43AM up 871 days, 1:07, 1 user, load averages: 0.31, 0.30, 0.31
Naah, use a HummVee, with roof-mounted machine gun!
Is as stable as it is on other platforms, and more efficient. We are running it on a multimillion-hit site, and it rocks.
Go for it.
Great, undoubtedly, but the perl religion is really overdone. Sure, it's the only way to get anything done on NT, but that's no excuse.
Just a little DogBarf tossed at the faithful...
Lots of things look great in simulations.
This is the most vaporous of Vaporware.
I'm amazed anyone even noticed this stuff....
I have a plan for world peace, eliminating
hunger, ethnic conflict, overpopulation,
old age, obesity and lonely Friday nights.
Just waiting for funding and implementation.
your tongue sticks to it.
Blah. I got my beer during the boring football,
and watched the commercials.
Monster.com wins my award for creativity.
(the pasty-faced kids aspiring to bureaucracy)
Victoria's Secret gets the "Most Effective" award.
Worse than a delay, their sendmail config is broken, one of the anti-spam-relay filters is
_ __
... Relaying denied
bouncing mail sent to hostmaster@internic.net!!!
Holy Horse Manure! Worst monopoly ever, at least
there are alternatives to RedmondCrapWare!
__________________CLIP_________________________
The original message was received at Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:01:42 -0500 (EST)
from biprrs0.lb.internic.net [192.168.120.38]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
hostmaster@mail-hub-mgt.mgt.internic.net
(expanded from: )
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail-hub-mgt.mgt.internic.net.:
>>> RCPT To:
... Relaying denied
550 hostmaster@mail-hub-mgt.mgt.internic.net... User unknown
[ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]
Reporting-MTA: dns; opsmail.internic.net
Received-From-MTA: DNS; biprrs0.lb.internic.net
Arrival-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:01:42 -0500 (EST)
Final-Recipient: RFC822;
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; hostmaster@mail-hub-mgt.mgt.internic.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail-hub-mgt.mgt.internic.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:01:51 -0500 (EST)
Clean Lean and Mean!
And despite what a lot of klueless types say,
glibc6 stuff RUNS FINE on it.
For instance, Oracle, WINE, and many other glibc6
binaries. All crusing on my several dozen Slackware boxes... Yay Patrick Volkerding...
Avoid proprietary, avoid fifty gazillion rc.d files, avoid MS-style GUI-GAK! Go Slackware!
Seems pretty appropriate to describe the situation.
It's GPL, it's single-process (HUGE advantage)
open-source, and kicks Apache's butt!
http://www.roxen.com/
A REALLY BIG commercial website I know very well
uses it for everything. Including https://
Try it! And forget that
Perl and CGI ever existed... you won't miss them.